ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,912, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"In-vehicle control device and manufacturing method" was invented by Michihito Watarai (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an in-vehicle control device (1) including: a base (10); a cover (20) fixed to the base; a circuit board (30) housed in the base and the cover; and an electronic component (40) mounted on the circuit board, in which the base is made of a steel plate material, and includes a plate-shaped main body portion (13), a bottomed cylinder (14) having a U-shaped cross section in which one of front and back surfaces ...